Powering the Energy Transition through Subsurface Collaboration: Proceedings of the 1st Energy Geoscience Conference [Due November 2026]
Product code: EGC001
Geological Society of London, GSL Energy Geoscience Conference series, Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, Not yet published
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786206329
Author/Edited by: Edited by C.E. Gill, G. Goffey, J.R. Underhill
Number of pages: 707
Online publication date: 07/10/2026
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/egc/1/1
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Energy Geoscience Conference Series 1
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This volume contains a series of articles exploring themes ranging broadly across the energy geosciences, aiming to share insights and techniques between different subsurface applications. Exploration-orientated contributions address a broad range of examples, ranging from individual UK Continental Shelf fields and prospects to broad regional evaluations, assessment of CO2 and hydrogen storage potential and exploration for hydrogen, helium and lithium. Containment-related articles cover nuclear waste sequestration, well abandonment and regional seal assessments for CO2 storage. Papers addressing CO2 storage examine several planned North Sea storage sites in depleted gas fields with storage modelling and geophysical applications using and examining overlapping evaluation techniques used for oil and gas projects. Heat recovery and thermal storage in mine-water reservoirs are covered by several contributions. This collection of articles is intended to highlight the cross-sectoral application of subsurface understanding and evaluation approaches and, in doing so, to engender collaboration across the energy geosciences.
Technical Steering Committee, Convenors and Editors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Powering the energy transition through subsurface collaboration G. Goffey, C. Gill and J. R. Underhill
Net Zero Challenge Panel
Net Zero Challenges: why is communicating Earth science so difficult? A discussion on improving geoscience communication in an increasingly complex resource environment N. Frewin, G. Grant, C. Jackson, A. Khatwa, H. Mort and D. Rodger
Exploration in the energy transition
Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Central and Southern North Sea
R. Bouroullec, D. Ventra, A.J.P. Houben, H. de Haan, S. Nelskamp, R.M.C.H. Verreussel, C.R. Geel, N.M.M. Janssen, A.A. Monaghan, T.I. Kearsey, D. Millward and M.A. Stewart
Potential for hydrogen storage in salt caverns in the Kish Basin, offshore Ireland K. Byrne, J. White, N. O’Neill, S. Irwin and A. Mitchinson
Utilizing 3D seismic velocities within the Triassic Bacton Group to estimate the exhumation of the Rotliegend Group, Blocks 48/8 and 48/9, UK Southern North Sea T. Cafferkey and M. Dack
Exploring for hydrogen, helium and lithium: is it as easy as 1, 2, 3? J. G. Gluyas, M. Humphreys, R. Karolytė, A. Cheng, B. Sherwood Lollar and C. Ballentine
UK Central North Sea diapir fields: quantification of a previously unimaged trap via a perched roof flap model, with welded evolution, stress and hydrocarbon containment insights G. Goffey
Stratigraphic synchronization of the uppermost Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of the Central and Southern North Sea area: palaeoenvironmental and source-rock implications A. J. P. Houben, R. Bouroullec, S. Nelskamp, D. Ventra, T. I. Kearsey, C. H. Vane, N. M. M. Janssen, S. H. J. Peeters, M. A. Stewart, A. A. Monaghan and R. M. C. H. Verreussel
Subsurface storage capacity in structural traps in underexplored sedimentary basins: hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) storage on the Irish Atlantic margin C. M. O’Sullivan, P. Rodriguez-Salgado, C. Childs, P. M. Shannon and R. J. Murphy
The past, present and future of oil and gas exploration and production West of Shetland N. Schofield, J. R. Underhill, S. Holford, B. Kilhams, D. Watson, L. Layfield, D. Jolley, S. Archer, E. Mueller and J. Beenfeldt
Characterizing hydrocarbon discoveries and prospects in the Tay Sandstone using relative elastic inversion: Greater Pilot area, Central North Sea D. Went, M. Bamford, J. Rogers, S. Brown and G. Turner
Geoscience in CCUS
Endurance saline aquifer CO2 store – from appraisal to development and beyond C. M. Gibson-Poole, J. Tarasewicz, E. Gray, K. Hitchen, N. Bouffin, M. Taplin, A. Gillespie and S. K. Buchanan
Competition, conflict and consequences: offshore geospatial planning for the energy transition R. V. Hamilton and J. R. Underhill
The role of structural compartmentalization in carbon storage site selection in Permian (Rotliegend Group) reservoirs in the Southern North Sea E. M. Mears, J. R. Underhill and I. de Jonge-Anderson
A critical assessment of the applicability of the Storage Resources Management System (SRMS) to subsurface energy storage G. R. Taylor, A. J. Kirchin and G. J. Bradly
Geological characterization of the Viking South carbon storage complex: injecting new life into the depleted Victor gas field J. R. Underhill, A. L. Fletcher, T. Martin, D. W. Taylor, C. N. Izatt and P. Middleton
Emerging geothermal
Screening of mine shafts for future energy technologies: a case study from the Scottish coalfields K. B. Deeming, I. Otalega, G. Johnson, S. Flude, Z. K. Shipton and N. M. Burnside
Geological factors in the sustainable management of mine water heating, cooling and thermal storage resources in the UK A. A. Monaghan, C. A. Adams, R. A. Bell, M. A. Lewis, D. Boon, A. González Quirós, V. Starcher, G. Farr, L. M. Wyatt, F. Todd, K. Walker-Verkuil, D. J. MacAllister, C. Abesser, B. Palumbo-Roe and J. Scheidegger
Conceptualization of heat transfers in flooded mine workings M. Receveur, S. M. V. Gilfillan, C. I. McDermott, A. Fraser-Harris and F. Todd
Containment
Coupled modelling of brine availability in salt-based disposal facilities – learning from DECOVALEX-2023 S. Benbow, C. Watson, A. Bond, S. Norris, S. Parsons and K. L. Kuhlman
Distribution and origin of carbon dioxide in the East Irish Sea Basin: implications for carbon storage S. Head, J. R. Underhill, R. Jamieson and A. Busch
Evaluating the role of cap rock in controlling natural accumulation and storage of carbon dioxide in the East Irish Sea Basin, UK S. Head, J. R. Underhill, R. Jamieson and A. Busch
Workflows and recommendations for evaluating containment risk of geological carbon sequestration sites: examples from the Inner Moray Firth Basin R. Jonk and D. Watson
Rapid and long-lasting bedrock flow-path sealing by a ‘concretion-forming resin’: results from in situ evaluation tests in an underground research laboratory, Horonobe, Japan H. Yoshida, K. Yamamoto, Y. Asahara, I. Maruyama, K. Karukaya, A. Saito, H. Matsui, A. Mochizuki, N. Katsuta and R. Metcalfe
A methodology for deciding on well seal options for abandonment R. Zagorscak, R. Metcalfe, T. G. Robson and J. A. Wilson
Subsurface modelling for energy projects
Storage v. production: challenges for reservoir modelling and simulation practitioners M. Bentley and E. Stephens
Prediction of formation compressibility and secondary gas cap development from seabed and downhole tidal pressure signals in the Lancaster Field F. O. Boundy, S. J. Kape and S. R. Rosindell
The role of subsurface models to evaluate geo-containment for safe storage of CO2 – a case study of the Porthos CCS project in the Netherlands G. Thürschmid, J. de Kok, W. Schiferli and D. Aramburo Velez
Geomechanics considerations for UKCS CCS projects T. James Wynn
Early life, new life, late life
The Arran Field development – new gas production in the CNS J. Preston-Bell, D. Webster, C. E. Gill, A. Faulkner, K. Smout and A. Honey
Basin transection in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire: implications for energy resources and geological storage R. M. Wijanarko, J. R. Underhill, R. E. Brackenridge and L.-J. Fyfe
Fault and fracture characterization for the energy transition
Fracture length data for geothermal applications S. R. Forstner, R. Corrêa, Q. Wang and S. E. Laubach
Core workshops
Acorn Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) core workshops J. W. Coughtrie and G. J. Lynn
Identification of sand injectite facies in core: their significance to developing a reservoir model for the Chestnut oilfield, UK Continental Shelf A. Hurst, R. van Oorschot, A. Grippa and G. Palladino
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